9.30 .a.m. Welcome

10.00 a.m. Quality assurance of doctoral theses. How to avoid plagiarism. Should we create a shared strategy? Presentation on this subject by Nuria Casals, director of the UIC Barcelona Doctoral School.

Sharing ideas and subsequent debate.

11.00 a.m. Sharing ideas related to the costs of organisng thesis defences. Information collected by Ignacio Salvadó, head of the Doctoral School at Rovira i Virgili University.

11.30 a.m. Coffee-break.

12.00 p.m. Doctoral programme accreditation. Experience at the University of Vic (Toni Tort, director of the Doctoral School) and the Open University of Catalonia (David Masip, director of the Doctoral School).

12.30 p.m. Should thesis supervisors be trained? What should a training course be like? Experience at Rovira i Virgili University (Mar Reguero) and the University of Girona (Miquel Solà).

Sharing ideas and subsequent debate.

2 p.m. Lunch